The Interplay of Arabic and Yoruba Cultures in South-Western Nigeria
Title | The Interplay of Arabic and Yoruba Cultures in South-Western Nigeria PDF eBook |
Author | R. 'Deremi Abubakre |
Publisher | |
Pages | 636 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Arabic language |
ISBN |
Adab and Modernity
Title | Adab and Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | Cathérine Mayeur-Jaouen |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 744 |
Release | 2019-12-09 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004415998 |
Adab is a concept situated at the heart of Arabic and Islamic civilization. What became of it, towards modernity? The question of the civilising process (Norbert Elias) helps us reflect on this story.
The Piety of Learning: Islamic Studies in Honor of Stefan Reichmuth
Title | The Piety of Learning: Islamic Studies in Honor of Stefan Reichmuth PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 446 |
Release | 2017-08-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004349847 |
The Piety of Learning testifies to the strong links between religious and secular scholarship in Islam, and reaffirms the role of philology for understanding Muslim societies both past and present. Senior scholars discuss Islamic teaching philosophies since the 18th century in Nigeria, Egypt, the Ottoman Empire, Central Asia, Russia, and Germany. Particular attention is paid to the power of Islamic poetry and to networks and practices of the Tijāniyya, Rifā‘iyya, Khalwatiyya, Naqshbandiyya, and Shādhiliyya Sufi brotherhoods. The final section highlights some unusual European encounters with Islam, and features a German Pietist who traveled through the Ottoman Empire, a Habsburg officer who converted to Islam in Bosnia, a Dutch colonial Islamologist who befriended a Salafi from Jeddah, and a Soviet historian who preserved Islamic manuscripts. Contributors are: Razaq ‘Deremi Abubakre; Bekim Agai; Rainer Brunner; Alfrid K. Bustanov; Thomas Eich; Ralf Elger; Ulrike Freitag; Michael Kemper; Markus Koller; Anke von Kügelgen; Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen; Armina Omerika; Amidu Olalekan Sanni; Yaşar Sarikaya; Rüdiger Seesemann; Shamil Sh. Shikhaliev; Diliara M. Usmanova.
The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of South-Western Nigeria
Title | The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of South-Western Nigeria PDF eBook |
Author | Daryll Forde |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 2017-02-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1315297604 |
Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples. Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demography History & Traditions of Origin Nomenclature Grouping Cultural Features: Religion, Witchcraft, Birth, Initiation, Burial Social & Political Organization: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, Warfare & Justice Economy & Trade Domestic Architecture Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually, and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa, North-Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West Central Africa, Western Africa, and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps, available to view on routledge.com or available as a pdf from the publishers.
The Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria
Title | The Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria PDF eBook |
Author | William Russell Bascom |
Publisher | New York ; Montreal : Holt, Rinehart and Winston |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN |
Christianity, Islam, and Orisa-Religion
Title | Christianity, Islam, and Orisa-Religion PDF eBook |
Author | J.D.Y. Peel |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520285859 |
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria are exceptional for the copresence among them of three religious traditions: Islam, Christianity, and the indigenous orisa religion. In this comparative study, at once historical and anthropological, Peel explores the intertwined character of the three religions and the dense imbrication of religion in all aspects of Yoruba history up to the present. For over 400 years, the Yoruba have straddled two geocultural spheres: one reaching north over the Sahara to the world of Islam, the other linking them to the Euro-American world via the Atlantic. These two external spheres were the source of contrasting cultural influences, notably those emanating from the world religions. However, the Yoruba not only imported Islam and Christianity but also exported their own orisa religion to the New World. Before the voluntary modern diaspora that has brought many Yoruba to Europe and the Americas, tens of thousands were sold as slaves in the New World, bringing with them the worship of the orisa. Peel offers deep insight into important contemporary themes such as religious conversion, new religious movements, relations between world religions, the conditions of religious violence, the transnational flows of contemporary religion, and the interplay between tradition and the demands of an ever-changing present. In the process, he makes a major theoretical contribution to the anthropology of world religions.
Know Your Country Series: The Ibo of East-Central Nigeria
Title | Know Your Country Series: The Ibo of East-Central Nigeria PDF eBook |
Author | Oshomha Imoagene |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Ethnology |
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